Young architects who confront social issues often abandon both architecture and urban design, frustrated by their irrelevance – as practised by many professionals - to real urban problems. They embrace instead social or systems planning, or projects which demand social and communal concern rather than professional service. This is wasteful and should be unnecessary. For the best thing an architect or urban designer can offer a new society, apart from a good heart, is his own skill, used for the society, to develop a respectful understanding of its cultural artefacts and a loving strategy for their development to suit the needs and way of life of its people. This is a socially responsible activity; it is after all, what Gans and the pop artists are doing.
Denise Scott Brown, Journal of the American Institute of Planners, May 1969, 184-86
posted by ikergil 
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(via Architect Barbie | Design Milk)
Mildly bad idea, horrendously terrible design.
Although I have seen many female architects carry around hot pink drawing tubes and a hard hat belt.
posted by clarkandrewr 
1 year ago
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Leaving the Nest, Protégés Find Fame
(From left, Markus Dochantschi, who worked for the architect Zaha Hadid; Kulapat Yantrasast, who worked for Tadao Ando in Japan; and Florian Idenburg, who worked for Kayuzo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa’s Sanaa.)
Mr. Dochantschi, who is 42, left Ms. Hadid’s practice in 2002, making him one of a small group of foreign-born architects who have broken away from Pritzker Prize-winning mentors to work on their own in the United States. (New York Times)
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